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At Econsultancy, we publish a huge amount of content related to digital marketing and ecommerce. One particular area that gets a lot of attention (and rightly so) is social media, which has had a profound impact on the way that consumers and businesses interact with each other.
To help you keep up to speed with what's going on in the field, we've assembled some of our case studies, statistics, infographics, opinion and best practice blog content all in one place for you to digest at your leisure. You could even bookmark and share this page to add to your ninja toolset.
And if you're going to be applying for one of the social media jobs advertised on our digital marketing jobs board, these posts will help you brush up and look smart.
Read below for more…
Case studies
In order to understand what your company should be doing on social, it helps to benchmark yourself against the efforts of the competition.
Our senior reporter David Moth goes out of his way to dig up and analyse how big brands are using social channels, so almost all of the below are his.
How Cadbury uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+
How McDonald's uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+
How Red Bull uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+
How Nike uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+
How H&M uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+
How Coca-Cola uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+
How Walmart uses Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Google+
How John Lewis uses Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Google+
How Ikea uses Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Google+
How Microsoft uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+
How Standard Life uses LinkedIn and Twitter for B2B marketing
The links below follow a different format, but still provide excellent food for thought for marketers.
10 charities and how they use Pinterest
Seven great examples of engaging Pinterest competitions
Brands that use Vine: five great vs. five bad examples
Six fashion retailers that use Twitter's Vine
After customer goes to jail, NYC restaurant learns that social media can be unfair
Are the top 20 UK online retailers bothered about Google+?
The Guardian suffers as user numbers for Facebook's social readers nosedive
Boticca one of first retailers to add Pinterest to social sharing tools
When trying to justify an investment in social to the board, statistics can be used to help cement the business case.
As well as compiling lots of third-party data into our social media statistics report, we frequently share what we find on the blog. Some of these are below.
Facebook drives most social B2B traffic, but Twitter is top for conversions
Facebook fans spend 24% more than non-fans
£3bn of retail sales will be influenced by social media
Topshop is still top retailer on Facebook and Twitter, but Topman is #1 for Pinterest
US and UK newspaper sites: who's leading the way on Google +?
CTRs on Facebook ads increase 50% in the past 12 months
Pinterest stats: does it really drive more sales than Facebook?
Stats: Who uses Pinterest and why is it important for marketers?
These posts by Econsultancy's Jake Hird may be older than the above, but are still great
20 + mind-blowing social media statistics
20+ mind-blowing social media statistics revisited
20+ more mind-blowing social media statistics
Even when so much within digital is measurable, there is always a difference in opinion between what is the 'right' way to do things, versus the 'wrong'.
It's this discussion and debate that fuels so much of the innovation within the industry.
The following posts cover some of the most significant opinion pieces in recent times that cover social on our blog.
17 digital marketing and ecommerce trends for 2013 by Econsultancy CEO Ashley Friedlein
Social media: are you producing value, or promoting yourself?
Your social media initiatives might be pointless if...
Social lessons from the traditional loyalty program playbook
Facebook apps: there's no such thing as a free audience
Marketers and businesses should fear Graph Search
Q&A: Jeff Dachis on the new Facebook APIs and big data
Amazon goes social, launches Pages, Posts and Analytics
How understanding social typology can help marketers
American Express syncs with Twitter. Gimmick or new social commerce platform?
Small businesses are not impressed by Twitter
What makes a good community manager?
Are brands overestimating the value of social data?
Why has the financial services sector been slow to adopt social?
Goodbye LinkedIn answers, hello more Group spam?
While we now have started to use fewer infographics on the blog, sometimes they can be an exciting and stimulating way of presenting thoughts, idea and concepts. This hasn't stopped us producing the odd sarcastic infographic though.
Some of the best ones covering social media are below.
14 of the best infographics we've seen in 2012
The ultimate social media image sizing cheat sheet
Facebook Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
How social websites are using your data
Also of note, Mark McGee has published research on the effectiveness of infographics in decision making.
Best Practice
As well as knowing all the above statistics, case studies and opinion, execution is when the magic really starts to happen.
The posts below cover some of the 'hows' of social media, and provide useful tips to optimise your efforts on key channels.
How to prepare for the latest Facebook changes
Re-targeting and paid search coming to Facebook. Will you be ready?
Is CTR an irrelevant metric for Facebook ads?
Facebook apps: top tips from PhotoBox's Lawrence Merritt
How to measure brand awareness on Twitter
The Twitter landscape of 2013: recommendations for brands
How to use content marketing and Twitter Cards to boost your app downloads
What do Pinterest business pages mean for brands?
How will Pinterest's new analytics tool impact brands' content strategies?
Five celebrity social search takeaways for your content strategy
The three types of social structured data and why you need them
Is Google's AuthorRank just a myth?
Three content marketing tips from LinkedIn on reaching its audience
Six tips for optimising content to hit LinkedIn Today
SEO and social media get married
And of course, as well as the posts above, make sure you check out Econsultancy's reports on the topic to give yourself the edge in your work.
Social Media Management Systems Buyer's Guide
Social Media Statistics from the Internet Statistics Compendium
Pinterest for Business: A Best Practice Guide
Facebook Pages for Business Best Practice Guide
Facebook for Businesses in the Middle East and North Africa
Smart Pack: Influencer Channels: From Klout to Klouchebag
Customer Relationship Management in the Social Age: A Best Practice Guide
Have we missed anything out?
Now it's your chance to show what a social media maven you are. What are your top posts, statistics and resources? What have you seen that is worthy of attention? What facts have blown your mind and caused more retweets than an out of control social media intern?
Leave your suggestions in the comments below!
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Thanks for posting this.
Big shout out to Wade from BloggersMakeMoney for sharing this with me on G+.
I'll have to link to this page for #SoMeSa
One could spend days just pouring over this information
I really, really enjoy super posts like this. Lots of big brand stuff which I can hopefully use and translate into success for the small businesses I work with.
Thanks for comprising this list!
Thanks for this summary post. Lots of excellent case studies and statistics for me to use. We all see so many different uses and opinions of social media that it can be hard to choose a strategy but these posts really help.
You social media wizards, you. Big thanks.
Excellent list, thank you.
I'd like to suggest two from my blog; I've collated 300+ examples of social media policies: http://www.allthingsic.com/smpolicy/ and 220 case studies of who is using what for internal social media: http://www.allthingsic.com/list/
Excellent list, thank you very much for sharing.
I'd like to suggest two from my blog; I've collated 300+ examples of social media policies: http://www.allthingsic.com/smpolicy/ and 220 case studies of who is using what for internal social media: http://www.allthingsic.com/list/


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Very often these days fundamentalists get a very hard time because of their extremist views and are practically demonised by moderates across the political spectrum as well as each other. But very few of these chastisers have
actually even tried to look at the fundamentalist point of view and find any
positives in it. What we never hear about fundamentalism are the tremendous
advantages to it. So I want to outline these.
One of the biggest advantages to fundamentalist thought is that it makes you feel terrific. Rather than having to think for hours about a problem trying in vain to find a moderates answer as to its cause which will probably
give you a paradoxical counterintuitive answer, an answer is provided to you
that is simple to accept and easy to understand because it can be said as a
series of slogans or one liners. The answer is your list of enemies. Every fundamentalist
or extremist group has this list. What's on the list varies on the group, for
fundamentalist or militant atheists there's a large selection to choose from
including the pope, the Irish constitution,
the education system, the various churches , the political parties on
the right , agnostics and moderates. As a fundamentalist Christian there's also
a large choice including there's Richard Dawkins, the secular agenda, the
media, the gays, the pro choice movement, Muslims, the labour party and
moderates. All you have to do for any problem is pick a group from your list
and the problem has a cause. Case in point the Vatican had a problem with the
international child abuse scandal but you know it was ok because the problem
was gays in the church. It's simple, it's easy, it makes perfect sense and it wasn't
the churches fault at all. Problem solved right? Now how about we forget about
it and focus on that bothersome volcano in Iceland. Maybe we can blame that on
the scandalous clothing women are wearing these days. It worked for Iran with their
earthquakes. The best part of having these enemies to blame everything on is
that yes you can blame everything on them. You can be as nasty as you like to
your chosen enemy safe in the knowledge that its morally justified, that god or
righteousness or truth is on your side And
if all the world's problems are the result of your enemies then logically you are
the cause of no problems at all, and that is a wonderful feeling.
The second great advantage to being a fundamentalist is that no one can publicly insult you. Sure in small groups liberals might despair at their perception of your views but can they reach a wider audience? No! Why? Because the moment they try to use a paper or national television or any other medium to
advance the idea that you're insane all you have to do is threaten a lawsuit or
claim persecution and the media will censor this person without a second
thought. This happened to a moderate liberal I know quite recently and now the extremist
has had the article removed and is quite happy with himself. He's the second coming
of Christ don't you know. After all his and your views are obviously important
enough to deserve special protection if not outright state support and anyone
who doesn't like it doesn't matter at all.
So if you're an angry indignant closed minded person anyway with a narrow world view. Contact your extremist group. There's one for every form of extremism including yours and a lot of them are online now as well. You
can convince everyone that if it wasn't for these enemies you would be courteous
and rational and you can be sure that the media will restrict the speech of
everyone who tries to point out that you're actually an insane schizoid in need
of some serious therapy. If you're not though then maybe we ought to be doing
something to change the environment that allows these people to thrive.
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Another great thing about being a fundamentalist: you get that whole feeling of fighting against something. Which can make a person angry, but some people actually miss that feeling when they are out of an environment they are fighting against. Westboro certainly loves it.
John: yes I would. Political extremists can be about the same.
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A 22-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a Reidsville man on Friday.
Roy Junior Herbin, of Gibsonville, was charged in the death of Carl Lacy Love, 32.
Love was found unresponsive Friday at 616 Neal Road in Reidsville, Caswell County deputies said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Herbin faces a first-degree murder charge and is being held in the Caswell County Jail without bond. His first court appearance was scheduled for Monday.
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Army will have to wait another year for a chance at the Commander in Chief's Trophy.
Angel Santiago ran for three scores, but Air Force's Anthony LaCoste rushed for a career-high 263 yards and scored three touchdowns, helping the Falcons snap a seven-game skid by holding off the Black Knights 42-28 on Saturday.
Even if Army were to beat Navy in the season finale next month, the Midshipmen will retain the crown, courtesy of being the defending champions and having already beaten the Falcons earlier this season.
"They do some things that are tough on your eyes, and we didn't handle that well," Army coach Rich Ellerson said. "We practiced for it, but we didn't handle it. They won enough of the physical fights."
Down 35-21 midway through the fourth quarter, Army (3-6) caught a break when Air Force returner Garrett Brown muffed a punt. Four plays later, Baggett scored on a 10-yard run to trim the deficit.
But Broam Hart sealed the win for the Falcons (2-7) — ending the team's longest losing streak since 1979 — on a 3-yard scamper with 3:41 remaining.
"This is a big rival, so it definitely hurts," Santiago said. "Air Force is a good squad, and we knew that. We just didn't come through in the end."
There was a scary moment late in the second quarter, when Army linebacker Julian Holloway was carted off the field with his right leg in a splint after being hurt trying to tackle LaCoste on a long run up the middle. Ellerson said Holloway "will be OK," but that the junior would likely stay in Colorado Springs overnight.
Army led 7-0 and 14-7 in the first quarter and had a chance to widen that lead, but Air Force's Nick Fitzgerald blocked Daniel Grochowski's 48-yard field-goal attempt early in the second. Grochowski also pushed his attempt from 39 yards wide right in the third quarter on the Black Knights' opening drive of the half with the game tied 21-21.
"We've got to be able to finish with points," Ellerson said. "We didn't finish with points."
The Falcons took advantage on the next play as LaCoste broke free for a 78-yard touchdown to give Air Force the lead for good.
"He's a hard guy to get on the ground, and we've got to win some of those fights," Ellerson said of LaCoste. "At the end of the day, we've got to be able to get off blocks and tackle."
All three of Santiago's touchdowns came in the first half and despite the junior hobbling on a bothersome left ankle. Terry Baggett had 121 yards rushing and a score for Army, which was trying to beat Air Force for a second straight season.
Air Force, the nation's 12th-ranked rushing attack, finished with 343 yards, 35 more than the Black Knights' top-ranked ground game.
"I thought both squads played with tremendous heart," Air Force coach Troy Calhoun said. "It was competitive like you'd expect from a service academy game. We had several seniors play both offensively and defensively and do all sorts of good things for us today, and I know that this game means a lot to them.
"I'm glad we were able to give them this win."
LaCoste finished with the second-most yards rushing for a program that's known for its ground game. He was just shy of the school record held by Chad Hall, who had 275 yards against Army in 2007.
The elusive LaCoste also had long TD runs of 73 and 78 yards, along with a 1-yard burst early in the fourth quarter to give the Falcons a two-touchdown lead.
Ellerson knows his team still has goals to accomplish this season.
"We've got to keep fighting, we've got to keep believing, and we've got to keep doing the things that are consistent with winning," Ellerson said.


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Angelina Jolie was an emotional wreck after completing her first trip for the United Nations and kept a diary to help her deal with the harrowing scenes she witnessed.
The Salt star, who serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for the organization, struggled to cope when she met people living in extreme poverty, famine and war.
She tells Total Film, "My first trip changed me completely. When I first traveled I was just a ridiculous crying mess. These people have had their families killed, had their houses burned down, become stateless. They're not crying because they don't have time for it and I'm not helping them by just feeling for them. I had to stay practical and focused."
The actress was advised to write her emotions down in a diary to help her process the dreadful things she had seen and Jolie admits the experiences changed her as a person.
She adds, "It's funny because you are always asked to sum up who you are and your personality and your changes and I've never had therapy so I don't know exactly how I did that (open up in the diary). I just know that I opened myself up to want to learn more about the world and about other people and things that are going on. So I changed."


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WASHINGTON — A sharp slowdown in hiring during March, reported Friday by the Labor Department, renewed concern that the U.S. economy is still failing to fire on all cylinders.
Employers added a fewer-than-expected 120,000 jobs last month, about half as many as anticipated, in a dismal report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Still, the unemployment rate ticked down a tenth of a point to 8.2 percent — due to shrinkage in the workforce — adding to the confusion greeting the March numbers.
The numbers contradicted several recent positive economic reports, but also came as the prices of crude oil and gasoline are soaring. Oil prices jumped almost $2 on Thursday to settle at $103.31 a barrel ahead of the Easter weekend. A gallon of gasoline averaged $3.936 on Friday, up from $3.761 a month ago.
The question is whether March's weak jobs report is the start of a trend.
"Despite the disappointing numbers for March, I continue to expect a job gain of close to 2 million this year and unemployment rate just below 8 percent by year's end," said Mark Zandi, the chief economist for forecaster Moody's Analytics. "This isn't boom times, but it is consistent with an economy that continues to gain traction.
"I was expecting to be disappointed at some point this spring, given the payback from the extraordinarily warm winter weather."
The warm winter led employers to hire earlier than usual. The "job market wasn't as strong as the gains experienced this winter, and it isn't as weak as the soft numbers this spring will suggest," he added.
Usually when monthly employment numbers are disappointing, stocks plunge. But the markets were closed for Good Friday and Passover, so analysts expect a rough ride Monday on Wall Street.
Economists had been expecting jobs growth in the range of 200,000 to 250,000, in part because Wednesday's ADP National Employment Report, a gauge of private payrolls, found that 209,000 jobs were added in March.
Almost half of those jobs — about 100,000 — were added by small businesses, which the broader BLS survey often doesn't capture, although they appear in the ADP survey, compiled by payroll giant ADP and forecaster Macroeconomic Advisers.
The government's four-week average of new unemployment claims, reported Thursday, fell to just under 362,000, indicating the recovery's gathering steam. Given the ADP and claims numbers, many economists attributed the weak March numbers to seasonal factors, such as the warm winter, that might have accelerated hiring.
Bank of America economists Neil Dutta and Ethan Harris didn't buy that view.
"The weather does not appear to be a material factor in today's report. The number of workers not at work due to bad weather ran 114,000, below the 174,000 average going back to 2007," they wrote in a note to investors. "Despite today's weakness, note that payrolls have a lot of noise; the trend over the last three months is solid, with private payrolls expanding by 210,000 on average."
Economists for forecaster RDQ Economics in New York predicted that the weak report would be revised upward later.
"On the face of it, this report will be viewed as disappointing because of the modest gain in payrolls. However, other reports suggest that employment growth was much stronger, and the March payroll data have to go through two rounds of revisions over the next two months," RDQ wrote.
The January jobs report was revised down by 9,000 jobs on Friday, and the February report was revised up by 13,000, so the trend line was largely unchanged. The previous two months were among the strongest months for job creation of President Barack Obama's term, but the March numbers weren't good news for his re-election team. Still, the president greeted them as if they were.
Speaking at a White House forum on women and the economy, Obama said, "We welcome today's news that our businesses created another 121,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate ticked down. Our economy has now created more than 4 million private-sector jobs over the past two years, and more than 600,000 in the past three months alone."
He cautioned, however, that "there will still be ups and downs."
One man who wants his job, GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, wasted little time before pouncing on Friday's jobs numbers.
"This is a weak and very troubling jobs report that shows the employment market remains stagnant. Millions of Americans are paying a high price for President Obama's economic policies, and more and more people are growing so discouraged that they are dropping out of the labor force altogether," Romney said in a statement. "It is increasingly clear the Obama economy is not working and that after three years in office the president's excuses have run out."
The March jobs numbers conflicted with a range of other positive economic indicators. For example, retailers shed almost 34,000 jobs in March, a significant number. Yet retail sales continue to thrive better than forecasters had projected.
Manufacturing, generally a good bellwether of demand, added 37,000 jobs in March. That's a sign of a more robust economy than the broader numbers might indicate.
"Factory employment has risen by 470,000 since a recent low point in January 2010," the BLS report said.
The National Association of Manufacturers was pleased. Frank Vargo, its vice president of international economic affairs, noted in the association's Shopfloor.org blog that "the March manufacturing jobs gain accounted for nearly one-third of the entire private-sector increase."
Still, there were plenty of signs of trouble. One was that the hard-hit construction sector fell another 7,000 jobs. Another, that the white-collar category of professional and business services was soft at 31,000 new jobs, while temporary employment fell by 7,500. That's may be significant, because temp jobs tend to be steppingstones to full-time employment.
— Retail, down 33,800.
— Temporary help services, down 7,500.
— Construction, down 7,000.
— Government jobs, down 1,000.
—Transportation and warehousing, up 2,800.
— Financial services, up 15,000.
— Health care, up 26,000.
— Professional and business services, up 31,000.
— Manufacturing, up 37,000.
— Leisure and hospitality up 39,000.
Obama vs. Supreme Court is latest episode in recurring rivalry
Federal judge rules in favor of Quran-burning pastor Terry Jones
Congress is so divided it can't even pass a highway bill anymore


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After a full season of drama, reality TV reunion shows seem to be a sure recipe for disaster. At the Love & Hip Hop New York reunion show taped earlier today, warring cast mates Consequence and Joe Budden took their differences to the next level. Consequence reportedly smacked Joe Budden and ran during a break, though not before also getting snuffed by Tahiry.
Consequence revealed the surprising news when he tweeted:
"Just Smacked The SH*T outta @joebudden at the #LHHReunion Everybody have a Nice day….#QueensAllDay."
Naturally, Budden had his own account of the story, and posted his side to his own Twitter timeline.
"During the break Tahiry & I were headed outside to smoke..Dude came behind, jumped & hit me as I'm walking away, Tahiry snuffs him, he runs….," tweeted Budden. "It was the most pu**y display ever seen from a n*gga to be quite honest…& it's all on tape, so ya'll can see the pu**y sh*t for yourself."
Like Budden said, you'll have to tune into VH1 to see the scuffle for yourself, but check out the all the tweets above.
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Actress Liberty Ross has filed for divorce from her director husband Rupert Sanders following his cheating scandal with Kristen Stewart last year (12).
The filmmaker was caught kissing Stewart, the lead star of his Snow White and the Huntsman film, in July (12) and subsequently issued a public statement apologising to his wife and children for "the pain I have caused my family".
Ross was briefly pictured without her wedding ring, but by September (12) the band was back on her finger amid reports the couple was working through its marital problems for the sake of its two kids.
However, the reconciliation has fallen through and Ross launched legal action in Los Angeles County Superior Court to end her marriage this week (ends25Jan13).
She has hired celebrity favorite Laura Wasser to represent her and has asked for joint custody of their daughter Skyla, five, and son Tennyson, seven, as well as spousal support and attorney's fees.
Sanders has already filed his response to the divorce - he is also requesting joint custody of the kids and is asking to split the legal costs with Ross. He is not asking for spousal support, reports TMZ.com.
In contrast, Stewart's love life seems to be back on track - her Twilight co-star and boyfriend Robert Pattinson appears to have forgiven her for her momentary "indiscretion" with Sanders and they reunited in October (12).


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Dallas – Authorities are still searching the Dallas-Fort Worth area for 42-year-old Alberto Morales, a convicted sex offender who escaped after stabbing a detective who was guarding his transfer from Florida to Nevada.
Morales, who has been on the run since Monday, is believed to be wearing wrist shackles.
The 54-year-old detective, Jaime Pardinas is expected to survive, but it will take months for him to recover from stab wounds to his neck and back, authorities said.
Morales' former cell mates told investigators that he had vowed to never return to prison. Morales was so disruptive on Monday's flight into Houston that the Florida detectives decided to transport him by ground the rest of the way.
Police say Pardinas and Miami-Dade Det. David Carrero stopped near a Walmart in Grapevine, a Dallas suburb, while awaiting the arrival of a third officer who was flying in join them. Department policy requires there to be three officers present for ground transfers of prisoners.
While they were stopped, Morales broke off a piece from his eyeglasses and stabbed Pardinas once in the neck and three times in the back, police said. He then fled.
Police were taking Morales to Nevada, where he was to serve a sentence of 30 years to life for a conviction of sexual assault with a weapon. But the officers and Morales weren't allowed to get back on the plane during a layover in Houston because of the inmate's erratic behavior, authorities said.
During the first leg of the flight, Morales was "bumping his head against a passenger seat in front of him, so he was doing a lot of crazy, unusual things that just disrupted the entire flight," Miami-Dade Police Director J.D. Patterson Jr. said Tuesday.
Longtime Las Vegas defense attorney Marc Saggese, who represented Morales in a Nevada criminal case, said Tuesday that Morales claimed he suffered a severe brain injury when he was hit in the head with a baseball bat at age 17, and that he hears voices and has trouble controlling his impulses.
"He said that ever since that attack and subsequent surgeries he has been struggling with demons in his head," Saggese said.
While in a jail medical ward, Morales mutilated his genitals and scrawled words in blood on the wall. He underwent a psychological examination by doctors at a Nevada state mental hospital in Sparks, but he was found competent to stand trial, the attorney said.
Morales eventually pleaded guilty in 2008 to sexually assaulting a woman at an apartment blocks away from the Las Vegas Strip in 2003. The woman told police a man jumped from her closet in the middle of the night, held a gun to her face, blindfolded her, attacked her several times and left after telling her he would kill her if she called police, according to Clark County District Court documents.
Following his conviction in Las Vegas, Morales was sent to Florida to face prior charges, Las Vegas police Officer Laura Meltzer said.
Back in Miami, Morales was sentenced to 10 years in prison in December after pleading guilty to sexual battery with a deadly weapon, burglary with assault and kidnapping stemming from 2003. He broke into a Miami-area home, pulled out a butcher knife and raped two women, according to a police report.
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Blake Lively and Leonardo DiCaprio go for a bike ride on Saturday (July 30) in New York City.
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Vitamins can often do more harm than good, especially as quality commercial cat foods provide the correct balance of vitamins, nutrients and calories. Check with your veterinarian before considering supplements.
Dr. Trisha Joyce, a veterinarian for New York City Veterinary Specialists, knows how lethal mammary disease -- cancer of the mammary glands -- can be in cats. The first case of mammary cancer she saw was with a cat that was brought in with a lump. "We removed the tumor and the cat was fine. Six months later, the couple and the cat were back. Another tumor had appeared. This one had ulcerated, and it was too late to treat it."
Since that time, Joyce has counseled cat owners on how to prevent and detect mammary disease, and how to proceed once it's been diagnosed. Below, she shares her advice on each of these.
Risk FactorsMammary cancer is the third most common cancer among cats, and it is also one of the most preventable. "First and foremost, spay your cat," says Joyce. Kittens spayed before they are 6 months old have a 91-percent reduction in their risk of developing the disease. Kittens spayed before they are 1 year old have an 86-percent risk reduction. In contrast, cats spayed before the age of 2 have only an 11-percent reduction, with no reduction of risk at all after age 2.
Mammary tumors are most commonly found in unspayed cats between 10 and 12 years old. Siamese cats are more likely to develop the disease, and the onset is typically earlier. Male cats very rarely develop mammary cancer, although it can happen -- and is usually aggressive when it does.
DetectionWhen Joyce meets owners of unspayed cats, she encourages them to perform regular mammary exams at home. The idea is similar to the self-exams that women are taught to perform by their gynecologists in order to become familiar with their own breast tissue. "If you know how your cat's mammary glands feel when they're free of tumors, it's easier to catch a growth if one develops," she says. The tumors are not painful to the touch, though cats that don't like to be stroked may try to get away.
To examine your fluffy friend, run your hand over the fatty tissue around her nipple. "Just rubbing the belly is too superficial. Squeeze the tissue a little, almost like milking a cow. You're looking for a lump like a little hard pea, or sometimes bigger," says Joyce. Finding a lump is a good reason to visit the veterinarian as soon as possible: Doctors estimate that as many as 90 percent of mammary tumors in cats are malignant.
Other than these telltale lumps, mammary cancer is asymptomatic in its early stages. If it metastasizes, the cat may go on to develop health problems related to where the cancer has spread.
Diagnosis and PrognosisBecause feline mammary tumors are so likely to be malignant, prompt removal of the entire mammary chain on the effected side is most veterinarians' treatment of choice. Mammary surgery is less complicated than mastectomy in women, as a cat's breast tissue is outside of the muscle layer. Prognosis is best the earlier the cancer is caught, and the smaller the tumor is. Surgery yields a disease-free year for 50 percent of cats, while almost one-third of cats will go two years without the development of additional tumors. Surgery is often followed by a course of chemotherapy.
In advanced cancers that have metastasized, surgery may still be performed to reduce the impact of the tumor and improve quality of life. Sometimes, though, a metastasized mammary tumor means it's time to let your cat go. "The tumors can become ulcerative, making just moving around extremely uncomfortable, or if they spread to the lungs or the bones and make breathing or walking very hard, the most humane option may be euthanizing," says Joyce.
Mammary cancer in felines is fairly common, but it is also preventable, and most often not immediately fatal. With early detection, surgery and chemotherapy, your cat may have additional good years to spend with her loved ones.
Rose Springer is a frequent contributor to The Daily Cat and The Dog Daily. She lives in New York City.
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Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines cited in two-car crash
Winston-Salem police cited Mayor Allen Joines after a two-car crash Wednesday afternoon near downtown.
The collision happened just after 4 p.m. at the intersection of Second Street and Spring Street. No one was injured.
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On Wednesday, Rashema Melson will graduate at the top of her class as the valedictorian of Anacostia High School in Washington, D.C. She's headed to Georgetown University this fall on a full scholarship.
Melson has excelled at her homework — but for the past six years, she hasn't had a home to do that work in. She currently lives in the D.C. General homeless shelter, along with her mother and two brothers. The shelter houses up to 300 adults and 500 children and has come under scrutiny for its poor conditions.
Melson, 18, tells NPR's Audie Cornish that after school, a typical night involves reluctantly heading back to the shelter around 9:30 p.m.
"I try to stay out as late as possible," she says. "I wouldn't say it's my favorite place."
Among the many frustrations of shelter life are long security checks and noise. Because of the second, she would often wake up in the middle of the night just to do her homework in peace. Melson says she didn't keep her homelessness a secret from classmates — but didn't offer up the information either.
"I don't like sharing with kids because they start to pity you or they start to look at you in a different way," she says. "And I feel like, 'Hey, I'm just like the rest of you. I come in to get an education.' "
Even Melson isn't sure how she's managed to successfully juggle school (a 4.0 GPA), athletics (cross-country, track, volleyball) and homelessness. "I just know when I have a goal, I try not to let anything get in the way," she says.
That goal, even before becoming homeless, has been to graduate from medical school and become a forensic pathologist. She says her father's murder when she was a baby inspired her to pursue the career.
But it's never been easy.
"Along the way, we stumbled and we started struggling as a family," she says.
When those struggles began, she considered quitting sports and getting a job. But her coaches and teachers convinced her otherwise.
"They were just like, 'Don't worry, you're doing the best you can — keep it up, just do what you have to do,' " she says. "They were always there for me. They took a lot of stress from my mind."
But she says she still worries about what will happen to her family after she heads off to college in the fall, even if the campus is just a few miles away. She's hopeful her younger brother, who's 14 years old and a talented athlete, will continue to find a haven in sports.
In the meantime, she has advice for other homeless kids: Don't let your situation define you.
"I would just say keep your head up because you never know what's going to happen," she says. "You just have to have hope and faith and don't let it change who you are. Don't become ashamed and don't be embarrassed. And just know who you are inside. Because you live in a shelter — that's not who you are, that's just where you reside at for the moment."
She says it's the best advice she can give; it's what she tells herself.
It's graduation day for Rashema Melson. She is at the top of her class, valedictorian at Anacostia High School here in D.C. She has excelled in class and on her homework. But for the past six years, she hasn't had a home. Melson lives in a homeless shelter, along with her mother and two brothers. In the fall, she will be heading to Georgetown University on a full scholarship. I asked Rashema Melson to tell me how she manages.
RASHEMA MELSON: A typical night is me coming home around 9:30-ish. I try to stay out as late as possible. I wouldn't say it's my favorite place. I will come in, you know, I'll talk to my brother for a little bit. If I do have extra work still left over, I'll either put my headphones in, do my work or I usually, because I'm so tired, I'll go to sleep and I'll wake up in the middle of the night and I'll do some work and I'll go back to sleep. So however it is to get the job done, whatever fits, then I'll just do that because sometimes it is really noisy. And, you know, going through security check is frustrating sometimes just in case you, like, leave your ID and you have so much on your mind. But I think I've done pretty good with blocking it out.
CORNISH: And we should mention that at this shelter, they service up to 300 adults and 500 kids.
MELSON: Yes, yeah it's a lot. I don't know how I did it. I just know when I have a goal I try not to let anything get in my way. So I just decided to continue what I'm doing.
CORNISH: What was the goal here? I mean, it wasn't just about graduating, right? It sounds like you are aiming for much more.
MELSON: The goal that I have always had was to complete high school, graduate college, go to med school, finish residency and become a forensic pathologist.
CORNISH: A forensic pathologist? OK.
MELSON: Along the way, we stumbled and we started struggling as a family and because I got school, you know, I'm straight up academics. I'm really good at that. It's not really a struggle to me. But I do try - I pick sports over getting a job. And it was just, like, am I making the right decision? So it was a little pressure on me. Like my coaches, my teachers they were just like don't worry, you're doing the best you can, you know, keep it up. Just do what you have to do. They was like, you know, live your life. You're going to succeed. Don't worry about your situation at the moment. Like, they were always there for me. They took a lot of stress from my mind because it was just like, well, I need a job --what am I going to do? And I was like, should I go work under the table? Or can I get a real job? 'Cause I just turned 18 last year.
CORNISH: So your teachers and your coaches had some idea that your family was struggling and that you were homeless. Did your friends know? And did you feel like you had to kind of keep that from them a little bit?
MELSON: No, I feel like I don't think have to keep anything from anyone. I feel like, if it's none of your business, then it's just none of your business. But it's not really something - I don't like sharing with kids 'cause they start to, like, pity you or they start to look at you in a different way. And, you know, I feel hey, I'm just like the rest of you. I come in to get an education and just, like, you know, OK. So I didn't feel like I needed to share that. Like at the end of the day, I was doing what I had to do.
CORNISH: Now that you're getting ready to go to school, what are your worries for your family?
MELSON: I literally - I had like a little breakdown because, you know, I watched the news and my mom also goes to the meetings that they have there. And it's like oh, we're going to close the shelter down in 100 days. They said that last month. And it's been all over the news about the conditions of the shelter. I was just thinking like man, I'm going to college. You know, I'm happy for me but at the same time, what is my family going to? I'm - I mean, I'm worried but there's nothing that I can personally do. And, you know, if you can't personally do anything about it, don't stress yourself out too bad because it doesn't really hurt anyone at the end of the day but you. You know, that's just how I feel.
CORNISH: What kind of advice would you give to other students who are experiencing homelessness?
MELSON: I would just say keep your head up because you never know what's going to happen. I'm graduating homeless and I'm moving into college so, you know, you just have to have hope and faith, you know, and don't let it change who you are and don't become ashamed and don't be embarrassed and just know who you are inside. Because you live in a shelter that's not who you are, that's just where you reside at for the moment. That's the best advice that I could give. That's what I tell myself.
CORNISH: Well, Rashema Melson, thank you so much for coming in to talk with us and congratulations.
MELSON: Thank you.
CORNISH: Rashema Melson will be at Georgetown University next year on a full scholarship. Her message in tonight's valedictorian address at Anacostia High School - persevere, no matter what.
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Aug 12 2018, 09:30 PM || Hanna CampbellAll those characters that we need in our writing lives to make things better, or worse, or better and then worse. Anyone that takes a wanted advert will be rewarded with eternal love.7 topics4 repliesMY BROTHER TO MY LEFT
Jul 8 2018, 08:31 PM || RipleyPlease take advantage of this board to develop your characters beyond what goes on in threads. Sometimes that means creating a playlist, other times it means an outfit set, and sometimes it means writing a chapter of their life.
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Jun 29 2018, 11:54 AM || Agewe Bien-AméJurassic World offers two separate hotel experiences. For those of us with a broader budget, the Isla Nublar Hilton Hotel is the place to be. For visitors that want to feel more at home, the Casa De Caballeros cabins offer an independent ambience.0 topics0 replies----
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In addition to a number of gymnasiums, there is also a plethora of bars and cafés, libraries and cinemas, and a sprawling patch of beast-free land to enjoy all to themselves.3 topics25 repliesAND IT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME
Jul 13 2018, 09:55 AM || Riley ReganOften crowded with visitors and staff alike, the Main Street of the Jurassic World resort is packed with various stores, eateries and entertainment facilities. The Main Street leads to the monorail station, your number one form of transport to get around the island.
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Jun 8 2018, 01:03 PM || Brandon PrinceEnjoy the cool breeze tearing over the water, grab a hot dog, and check out the Mosasaurus show! If you don't want to be in the splash zone, take a journey downstairs and view a whole different side of Jurassic World in the underwater Observatory.1 topics4 repliesTHROUGH A FEW TOUGH TIMES
Jul 9 2018, 12:14 PM || Riley ReganThe ferry port welcomes regular arrivals of new visitors and employees alike. There is another port at the Jurassic Park site, and of course the ferries travel from one port to the other when visitors want to visit a new chapter of Jurassic World.
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Jul 3 2018, 09:10 AM || Riley ReganThe main building found on Main Street, the Innovation Centre is sponsored by Samsung. It is inspired by the original Jurassic Park's main centre, and has over 100 interactive exhibits. Inside you can find the Hammond Creation Laboratories, as well as the Mr. DNA show and a small but welcoming diner.
This structure has over 20,000 ft in its total area, and has plenty of space for all that come to investigate.1 topics3 repliesPlaying turist
Jul 28 2018, 09:00 AM || Brandon PrinceIt may not be decked out with holograms, but there are not many places where you can see the skeleton of a T-Rex, in the flesh. The museum is a gorgeous, elegant building that is often filled with tourists. It is largely educational, hoping to teach the generations of tomorrow about the land of yesterday.
There is also a short corridor dedicated to the previous Jurassic exploits.2 topics6 repliesTHE LAND OF SONG
Jul 30 2018, 04:00 PM || Agewe Bien-AméHousing the hybrid laboratories as well as further laboratories not open to the public, the restricted sector is only accessible via key card.0 topics0 replies----
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The Control Room features desks with built-in monitors and a massive observation screen used to maintain the flow of information about the park on a daily basis. This is the room where information is recorded about the park, and the safety of the visitors can be assured. Mostly.0 topics0 replies----
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-- ||The Jurassic World Aviary plays home to a number of winged dinosaurs, though none are inclined to attack, visitors must stick to the covered walkways as they traverse this magnificent dome. We're in their home here, they aren't in ours.
The aviary has an area of 430,000 square ft.0 topics0 replies----
-- ||Located on the north-eastern side of the island, this attraction allows guests to hire a kayak and paddle downstream, drifting right through the habitats of many herbivorous dinosaurs. The cruise also drifts peacefully through the aviary, though no visitor is permitted to stop their kayak at any time and step out, unless it is for an emergency.
This cruise allows a visitor to see over 100 types of dinosaur, and prehistoric flora and fauna.0 topics0 replies----
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Every two hours, visitors are invited to walk through the protected, enclosed tunnel that passes through the paddock, to view the magnificent T. Rex enjoy a meal. If that's too bloody for you, you are more than welcome to take a seat in an upper seating area, where you may even get the chance to see a T. Rex wander through a land that is entirely their own.0 topics0 replies----
-- ||Take a tour by the Dilophpsaurus paddock and witness one of our most clever little beasts. Goggles are mandatory.1 topics0 repliesTHE UNDERDOG
Jul 15 2018, 06:14 AM || John ArnoldProtected by large glassy seating areas, visitors are welcome to oversee the Pachy paddock and see these critters in their natural habitats. As well as casual observation, visitors are encouraged to tune in to the Pachy Arena, where handlers encourage their beasts to perform headache-inducing antics. Be it crushing several slabs of concrete with their noggins, or battling it out with one another for dominance.0 topics0 replies----
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-- ||Take a peek at our massive Suchomimus, who shares this swamp habitat with our Sarchosuchus' and other cohabitatable crocidilians.0 topics0 replies----
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Jul 27 2018, 12:37 AM || Krayman HendricksContaining nearly 2,000 types of jurassic flora, the walk through the botanical gardens is both refreshing and breathtaking. Not only are the gardens beautiful, but functional, as nearly every single plant feeds one of the dinosaurs in the park.
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Jul 15 2018, 01:57 PM || John ArnoldThese are well hidden from the guests of the park. The staff trails are vehicle and foot paths that span across the island, making it easier for the staff to get to and from one place to the next.
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Jul 11 2018, 10:36 PM || Wesley DeWittScattered around the island, in the areas deemed safe for habitation, there are bungalows for park staff who would rather live in solitude than stay on the resort.
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Determine slope and intercept from an equation
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Objective: SWBAT determine the slope and y-intercept from any linear equation.
Big Idea: Y has been a very, very bad boy. :) Isolate him so that we can figure out the slope and intercept.
Each day, students complete a Warmup that usually consists of spiraling the previous day's material, in addition to older material. Warm-up problems also sometimes extend lessons that students have encountered before to more unfamiliar contexts.
For a video narrative about how I structure each lesson, and how the warm-up fits in, click here.
I really like the warm-up problems today, because they push kids to apply their understanding to unfamiliar problems - in this case, focusing on matching the equivalent graphs and equations... I like to ask: "Which answer choice is wrong, and why?" Kids then use reasoning about the positive or negative nature of the slope, as well as where the line crosses the y-axis, which enriches their understanding of multiple representations of linear functions.
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The creature in figure 1 is a buff-tailed bumble-bee (Bombus terrestris), a member of one of the most abundant bumble-bee species in Europe. It lives underground with its nest mates, often in the abandoned nest of a mouse and, while it spends much of its life foraging within 100–500 m of its nest [1] with occasional excursions further out, buff-tailed bumble-bees transported as far from their nest as 13 km can find their way home.1
This bumble-bee is a social creature, sharing information about food sources with its nest mates by motor displays and chemical signals (pheromones). Its foraging behaviour is an endless series of visits to flowers, typically flowers of a single species as noted long ago: 'On each expedition the bee does not fly from a flower of one kind to a flower of another, but flies from one violet, say, to another violet, and never meddles with another flower until it has got back to the hive … ' [2, p. 277].
In an elegant book about the economics of the bumble-bee, Bernd Heinrich [3] characterizes flower and bumble-bee as an essentially perfect example of an economic system. Bees and flowers need each other but their 'interests' do not always coincide. The bee disperses pollen from the flower, enhancing its rate of reproduction, and the flower provides the bee with its primary source of energy in the form of nectar.
The flower would benefit if it could produce less nectar and more pollen ceteris paribus. But ceteris paribus here implies that the bee would continue to disperse pollen as enthusiastically after what is in effect a cut in wages. Heinrich's characterization of a bee and a flower as a perfect economic system simply recognizes a brutal fact. The bee has no recourse against a cheating flower other than to vote with its wings and never visit such a flower again. There are no bee–flower contracts and no legal system to enforce them, no police, no politicians and no lawyers. The bumble-bee lives in a libertarian paradise.
But enter the visual system. If the bee is to avoid cheating flowers and their kin, it must be able to discriminate flowers that are less rewarding from those that are more. If one group of flowers mutates to provide less nectar at the cost of pollen, then it is very much in the bee's interest to be able to detect any subtle differences, chemical or visual between flowers generous and flowers mean. The result is selective pressure to improve the bee's ability to discriminate perceptually so that the bee can favour more generous flowers. The colour and pattern vision of the bumble-bee are the remarkable product of a never-ending economic struggle between two species that need each other very much (see [4]).
The accompanying article is an investigation of the colour and pattern vision of B. terrestris that is remarkable in its origin. The research was conceived, carried out, summarized and written up by a class of 8 to 10 years olds in Devon, England under the light supervision of a teacher and a research scientist. The result is a significant piece of research giving a novel insight in the colour and pattern vision of the bee. Using well-established experimental procedures that were invented by John Lubbock [5] for the study of colour vision in bees and later implemented by a Nobel Prize winner [6], the results provide convincing evidence that bees can transpose between learned colour, pattern and spatial cues when encountering changes in a coloured scene. So far, it has been known that bees can learn and remember more than one colour at any one time [7], use global and local cues in black-white patterns [8] and learn each element in flower-like two-coloured patterns [9]. What is novel in the experiment presented here is that bees learned colour and pattern cues in a spatially complex scene composed of two-coloured local and global patterns. Coloured patterns at small and large spatial scales have been little studied, and hence our knowledge of how colourful patterns and scenes are perceived by insects is still scarce.
The experimental apparatus consisted of a cube with Plexiglas walls, 1 m on each side placed outdoors in a field. Bees could enter the cube through doors on two of the sides and approach a light box placed within the cube. The light box displayed four panels, each a four by four array of coloured lights (see also [10]). At the centre of each light, there was a small rod (feeder) that dispensed sugar water (desirable to the bee) or salt water (aversive to the bee) or nothing. Initially, the bees were allowed to learn that the box contained feeders that dispensed sugar water. In the experiments proper, the spatial patterns of blue and yellow lights contained a clue to which feeders contained sugar water, or with salt, or nothing. If the bee could decipher the clue, it could quickly locate the feeders with sugar water.
The bees were first trained with the outer lights in each 4 × 4 array set to blue, the inner set to yellow or vice versa. The resulting configuration resembled a crude flower. The inner lights had sugar water in their feeders and the outer salt. If bees picked a feeder at random, they would on average encounter sweet as often as savoury. If they always went to blue lights (or only to yellow), they would have the same 50 per cent success rate. If bees could learn the patterns of opposing colours and go to the centre lights of the artificial flowers, they would always encounter sugar water.
After training, the bees were tested with the same patterned array but now with no sugar water or salt water in any feeder. In this way, the experimenters could determine what the bees had learned about visual patterns without any possible contaminating cue.
The experimenters counted where each bee went and tabulated the results. The results demonstrate that bees had learned to use the pattern cue to enhance their probability of success in foraging. Two further tests allowed the experimenters to study how bees would generalize to novel patterns. The result of the first test, which manipulated the colours in the patterns, is surprising. Knowing that bees are capable of defining spatial locations in a patch of food sources with aid of panoramic views [11,12], one would have expected that all the bees would be guided by the spatial rather than pattern cues. Some went for the location, while others did not, which hints to the possibility that the bees can generalize pattern cues in such situation. In the third test, the whole pattern was strongly disrupted and the most reliable decision would be to trust the spatial cues. However, all bees seem to have generalized the colour cues, distributing their choices across the whole array.
The results indicated that different bees pursued different strategies in a novel situation. Curiously, they seem to be able to extract and flexibly recall different cues from complex scenes, with a remarkable flexibility that easily rivals that of vertebrates. Such ability is extremely useful for shaping adaptive foraging responses in an ever-changing world, with floral communities that can vary drastically over short periods of time or short distances between adjacent habitats.
The experiments are modest in scope but cleverly and correctly designed and carried out with proper controls to avoid possible artefacts. They lack statistical analyses and any discussion of previous experimental work, but they hold their own among experiments carried out by highly trained specialists. The experimenters have asked a scientific question and answered it well.
The tone of the paper is also remarkable. Clearly, these children are tremendously proud of their accomplishments and eager to communicate what they know now that was previously unknown. The perceptual and decisional abilities of insects and other are extraordinarily varied [13,14], shaped as successful responses to environmental challenges. But the same can be said of the children who carried out this research. The resulting article is a remarkable demonstration of how natural scientific reasoning is for us. The insatiable curiosity that characterizes childhood, combined with the skeptical discipline of scientific method, provides a powerful tool that allows us to prosper and grow.
↵1 BBC News, 26 July 2006. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/5215022.stm.
- Received November 8, 2010.
- Accepted November 9, 2010.
- This Journal is © 2010 The Royal Society


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Nothing the United States Congress does is simple, and the deal worked out last week to avoid the fiscal cliff is no exception. Beyond extending the Bush tax cuts for all but the highest income Americans, the bill included a raft of other provisions affecting everything from tax policy, unemployment benefits and Medicare payments to milk subsidies and congressional pay. For all that, most of its components were actually welcome.
One aspect of the bill, however, was of particular importance both for Colorado and the nations energy economy. The extension of the Production Tax Credit for wind energy will preserve well-paying jobs, continue the development of a promising technology and help the United States on its way toward a cleaner, more energy self-sufficient future.
Getting the Production Tax Credit extended was a special project for Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo. He took the Senate floor more than two dozen times to argue for it and has worked tirelessly on its behalf. His office says that as enacted it will:
Provide a tax credit for electricity actually produced, not for idle turbines.
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The extension of the Production Tax Credit passed last week is only for one year. Nonetheless, the American Wind Energy Association says it will save as many as 37,000 jobs nationwide. More than 6,000 of those jobs are said to be in Colorado.
Nor are those jobs all in manufacturing and installing wind turbines. The giant turbines also need maintenance. That brings relatively high-tech work to the plains of Eastern Colorado where well-paying jobs have been otherwise scarce.
Critics decry the tax credit as a subsidy and, more trenchantly, as picking winners and losers in a manner that should be left for the market to decide. But that misses the point. Fostering the development of new technologies has long been an effective and often essential government function.
The private sector rarely builds airports and did not develop the nations air-traffic control system. It did not build the dams that supply the hydroelectric component of the U.S. electric grid.
The jet planes operated by the airlines, the Internet that Amazon relies on, the satellites that bring us television shows, movies and real-time news of the world were all first developed with government funding.
In other situations, private capital may have developed the technology, but the industries that followed depend on government-built infrastructure. The government did not create the first cars, but the auto industry (not to mention the trucking industry) would not be what it is without federally funded highways.
How much of that constitutes unwarranted subsidies can be argued. But to object that helping along a nascent technology amounts to interfering with the economy by picking winners and losers makes sense only on the lips of those backing the losers in this case coal and oil.
Wind power is working. Among the states, Colorado now generates the third highest percentage of its electricity. The advocacy group Environment Colorado says nationwide wind now powers almost 13 million homes and reduces climate-changing pollutants as much as taking 525,000 cars off the road. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates wind power could supply a fifth of the countrys electricity by 2030.
In securing the Production Tax Credit, Udall had bipartisan support. But the senator deserves particular credit for his tenacious effort and leadership. This was a win for Colorado and its future.


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Louis Carle thought his helicopter was small enough to land in a clearing on a jungle hilltop in Luzon. It was June 1945, the waning days of the Pacific war, and Carle, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces, was trying to evacuate a wounded American soldier from the main island in the Philippines. Carle began a cautious descent in his Sikorsky R-4B, but a rotor tip hit a tree, and with an abrupt jerk, the helicopter began thrashing itself to pieces.
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After the helicopter hit the ground, Carle was helped from the wreckage. He found himself sitting in the midst of a small band of U.S. soldiers. Nearby, starving but well-armed Japanese squads were determined to resist to the end. With injuries to his head and leg and a splinter of a wood rotor blade lodged behind his right eye, Carle had no choice but to order the U.S. soldiers to fire bazooka rounds into the wreckage and destroy his helicopter. He then began an arduous trek out of the mountainous jungle. Before he reached safety, he encountered one of the Japanese soldiers. Carle, armed with a pistol, shot and killed him.
From June 15 to July 29, 1945, Carle and five other pilots evacuated 75 to 80 wounded soldiers, one or two at a time, from the highlands northeast of Manila. Although they were not the first helicopter pilots to fly in combat—that distinction belongs to Lieutenant Carter Harman of the First Air Commando Group, who flew the first medical evacuations, in Burma on April 23, 1944—they were the first to be targeted by enemy fire: Japanese soldiers tried to shoot them down with machine guns. Their six-week effort constitutes the largest combat helicopter operation before the Korean War, yet their contributions remain largely unknown.
The evacuation of casualties had been contemplated as a mission that helicopters could perform for the armed services, but it is not the mission that the six pilots were trained for, and it is not why their first-generation helicopters were sent to the Philippines. Pilots and helicopters had been assigned to the Pacific theater to ferry aircraft parts for a program known as Project Ivory Soap. With this project, the Army Air Forces used U.S. Army-owned ships as floating depots to maintain the aircraft of groups stationed in the Pacific. Early in the war, air groups often waited months for replacement parts and supplies to reach the Pacific isles on which they were based; with repair ships floating nearby, aircraft could be turned around much faster.
By December 1943, Project Ivory Soap had evolved into a fleet of six Liberty ships, designated Aircraft Repair Units (Floating), and 18 smaller ships, designated Aircraft Maintenance Units (Floating). In the final year of the war, the program proved essential for maintaining the tempo of Pacific-based aircraft operations by conducting nearly all of the most intensive maintenance functions, with the exception of engine overhaul.
By far the most distinctive feature of the floating repair ships was their helicopters. In addition to the R-4B, Sikorsky had made two other helicopters for World War II: the R-5 and R-6. The R-4 was a trainer intended merely to introduce the helicopter's potential to the military; the R-6 was a further evolution, designed as a liaison aircraft. The R-5 was the true workhorse, the only one of the group capable of lifting a substantial load.
Unfortunately, the much larger R-5 suffered a series of engineering delays and was not ready for deployment until several months after the war ended. The R-6 also suffered delays, but saw limited service in the last three months of the war. That left the lowly R-4 trainer to bear the brunt of helicopter operations from April 1944 onward. Under ideal conditions, the R-4 could carry, in addition to the pilot and fuel, only 195 pounds, which meant only instruments and small components such as propeller hubs. But the timely delivery of even small payloads was highly valued.
The First Aircraft Repair Unit deployed on October 11, 1944, and by the following February, all six vessels were in the Pacific. At the start of June 1945, the Third, Fifth, and Sixth Aircraft Repair Units were operating in the Philippines, supporting the Fifth Air Force, while the remaining three supported the 20th Air Force in the Marianas. (The First and Second Aircraft Repair Units were specially equipped and trained to support B-29s in the Marianas, including repair of their radar and complex central fire control systems.) Each of the ships had a 40- by 72-foot steel deck for helicopter operations.
Carle and First Lieutenant Robert Cowgill were assigned to the Fifth Aircraft Repair Unit. On June 15, with Cowgill away to pick up the first Sikorsky R-6A to make it into the theater, the Fifth Air Force received a request from the 38th Infantry Division to evacuate two soldiers with head injuries from a spot 35 miles east of Manila.
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I love cookies, especially as a treat for lunch boxes. I especially love sugar cookies-- you know, the ones that you roll and cut and decorate with frosting. But they take a lot of work, and I save that for the holidays.
There are many recipes in the cookbook that I plan to make, but this is the first one. I liked the idea of adding lemon zest and juice, and the recipe looked very simple, so I got started making these. A note about my philosophy on baking:
I would rather eat a smaller portion of baked goods made with real butter, than trying to save a few calories using margarine and/or Splenda. I don't like the results of using either of these ingredients. If I'm going to eat a dessert, I want the real deal! I simply make a choice not to eat too much at one time. As far as baking for diabetics-- my son has Type I diabetes so I have invested a lot of time taking nutrition classes. Using "fake" sugar, in my opinion (as learned by diabetes experts I know) isn't the answer. Truly, diabetics need to watch their carbs. My son can eat sweets (in moderation, of course) as long as he counts his carbs, exercises and takes the right amount of insulin to compensate for it. I only wanted to share this information, because I read countless people asking how to adjust baked goods for a diabetic. It is "old school" to try and eliminate sugar. It's about carbs! Most importantly-- find a nutritionist who is very familiar with diabetes and follow their advice.Sorry-- end of soap box.
Back to the cookie recipe... and on the subject of sugar... I was especially glad that I have a bag of sparkling white sugar, that the recipe calls for.
I bought mine at King Arthur Flour, along with a few other fun kitchen goodies that I will be playing with in the next few weeks. If you don't have this product, you can use granulated sugar.
The dry ingredients are simple-- flour, baking soda, and kosher salt are sifted. In a mixing bowl, white and brown sugar and lemon zest.
Before I bake, I always bring the butter (and I prefer to use unsalted butter) and eggs to room temperature. TIP: you can also submerge the eggs in very warm water, as a short cut. Using my faithful Kitchen Aid Stand mixer, I mixed the sugars and the fresh lemon zest and then I creamed the butter until fluffy.
Next, the eggs are added one at a time, the lemon juice and then the dry ingredients are added a little at a time.
This is my newest Kitchen Aid gadget-- a beater blade, recommended by Dorie Greenspan a few months ago, on her blogsite. What I like about this beater blade design is that it really scrapes the batter off the sides of the bowl a lot more efficiently. I bought mine through Amazon.com.
The recipe says that it yields 18 large cookies. I used an ice cream scoop for the first batch..
However, I decided I wanted smaller cookies or I'd have to buy a bigger lunch box! I switched over to my smaller scoop size.
TIP: I used a silicone spatula and wet it with water, so that the dough wouldn't stick. That also made flattening the cookies easier, and then I sprinkled the sugar on top. Otherwise, the recipe says to brush each cookie with water to make additional sugar stick.
After 15 minutes of cooling, I gave one a taste. Oh! A little crispy on the outside, and chewy in the middle-- the sparkling sugar adds an extra crunch. The cookies aren't super sweet, with a very subtle taste of lemon-- but the lemon isn't overpowering at all. Yep, these are delicious!
I think it would be a fun twist to make this recipe with almond extract (another personal favorite of mine) and even some ground almonds.
These cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to three days. These lasted two days, so we wouldn't know!
As always, the recipe is at the bottom of this page. If you are receiving my blog, via Feed Burner, you will need to visit my blog to see and print the recipe.
I'm so glad that it's the weekend and I can catch up on what the rest of you have been making!